IT'S NOT OVER YET:

Scholar says inscription about 'brother' of Jesus may be genuine (Society of Jesus USA website)


By Bronson Havard

IRVING, Texas (CNS) -- An ancient Holy Land burial box with the controversial inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" may be authentic, Jesuit Father Joseph Fitzmyer, a noted Scripture scholar, said in a lecture at the University of Dallas.

Father Fitzmyer questioned a finding by the Israel Antiquities Authority, a government agency, that the inscription was fake.

The Israeli agency known as the IAA has failed to settle the issue, he said Nov. 8 to nearly 300 people at the university located in Irving.

Father Fitzmyer sided with Andre Lemaire, a Scripture scholar at the Sorbonne University in Paris, in disputing a conclusion by the antiquities authority that the inscription on the burial box, called an ossuary, is a fake.

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